On 1 Mar 2013, at 18:38, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:32:23 -0500 > Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> >>> On the other hand in some ways Jython is sort of like Python on a >>> weird virtual OS that lets the real OS bleed through some. This may >>> still need to be checked in that way (there's are still checks of <if >>> os.name == 'nt'> right?) >> >> Yeah, but that all ooooold code ;) > > Hmm, what do you mean? `os.name == 'nt'` is still the proper way to > test that we're running on a Windows system (more accurately, over the > Windows API). > It has been used incorrectly in a few places in the Python standard library - Windows support code that would work correctly on IronPython is skipped because os.name is *not* 'nt' on IronPython. That was the case in the past anyway. It's quite some time since I've used IronPython now. Michael > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
